>Which 100 families have been told? E.g., if 100 are dead according to
>official reports, when a family is notified, do they contact other families
>and make an accounting of the names of every dead soldier and add up the
>numbers?
But, assuming they are telling the families... a guy from a nearby town (Cedar Key) was just killed in Iraq and the whole town knew as soon as the family started telling friends, neighbors and then of course they had a little thing on him in the nearest big paper (the Gainesville Sun), people remembering him (and why he joined up, cause he couldn't find steady work). With enough internet newshounds collecting these little articles out you could compare them to the official totals, no? Search on 'he/she was such a nice boy/girl", "shock", and "grieving parents."
Jenny Brown